Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his counterpart in Indonesia on the potential criminalisation of LGBT acts and extramarital relations by that country's Parliament.

We are concerned about a number of proposed amendments to the Indonesian penal code, including on potential criminalisation of homosexual and extramarital relations.

The Minister for the Commonwealth and the UN, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, raised our concerns around the revision of the penal code with the Indonesian Ambassador on 22 January. The UK Ambassador to Indonesia also raised our concerns with Minister Laoly, Minister for Law and Human Rights, on 31 January; with individual parliamentarians involved in the drafting on 13 February; and with President Joko Widodo’s Chief of Staff on 12 March.

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